Hat-fastener.



PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

0. STEOMBORG. HAT FASTENER.

APPLIGATION FILED 1130.9, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

fave 722507 e w n ET ay J r a a 0 UNITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

OSCAR STROMBORG, OF SOUTH CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAT-FASTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,741, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed December 9, 1903. Serial No. 184,492. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known thatI, OSCAR STROMBORG, a subject of the King of Sweden and N orway,resid ing at South Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hat-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hat-fasteners.

It is illustrated in some of its forms in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of a hat with my device attached. Fig. 2 is a like view of a slight modification. Fig. 3 is a like view of a still further modification. Fig. a is a crosssection on the line 4: I of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a cross section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1.

Like parts are indicated by the same letters in all the figures.

A is the hat-crown; B, the rim, the front of the hat being indicated at B.

O is a slide-bar, and O a hoop; but they are alike in function, the hoop being simply an extension and connection of the two slidebars O O. In the case of the hoop, however, the direction of motion of one of the slidebars is of course changed.

I) D are prongs on the hoop 0r slide-bar, and DD are prongs set in the reverse direction on the hoop O.

Ii E are guide-plates secured to the hat-rim and adapted to receive and guide the slide bars or hoop.

F is an upward projection on the slide-bars, terminating at the top in an ornamental piece F, and this projection F lies between the keepers F F on the guide-plate E, thus limiting the amount of motion which may be given to the slide-bars O or hoop C.

It will be understood that the prongs D and I) are preferably of springing material.

E E are guide-plates secured to the hatrim to be used in the case of the use of the hoop.

G G are prong-guides attached to the rim close to the vertical portion of the crown and adapted to permit the prongs to slide therethrough.

It will be understood, of course, that the above-described parts and their sizes, proportions, and relations may be greatly varied without departing from the spirit of my invention.

In Fig. 2 I llfWO shown the lower prong D as divided into three points, each having its separate guide.

The use and operation of my invention are as follows: \Vith the slide-bars O O in the positions indicated in Figs. 1 and 9., the hat is ready to be applied to the head of the wearer by pushing the two slide-bars either simultaneously or successivelytoward the rear. The vertical piece F will move until it strikes the next keeper and by so doing will force the prongs inwardly, so as to secure the hat to the head. This will be true in either case and without regard to the number of prongs on the slide-bar. The prongs may be integral with the slide-bar or hinged thereto.

In Fig. 3 the two slide-bars are secured together so as to form a hoop, and in this event the hoop must be rotated on its axis. The action is the same, except that one set of prongs are inclined forwardly and the others rearwardly.

The guides at the base of the crown are preferably of considerable length when compared with the length of the prongs, so that the prongs cannot move laterally, but are held firmly to their position by such guides. The placing of the guides in fixed relations causes the prongs to always enter at the same spot, and thus the fabric of the hat is relatively uninjured. They also form a base of protection for the fabric of the hat so far as it is injured or is liable to be injured by the passage of the prongs.

It will be observed, of course, that any or all of these several features of the device can be made ornamental or of any desired material.

I claim In a hat-fastener, the combination of two slide-bars, one on each side of the hat, with two guides in which they slide secured to the rim of the hat outside of and at a distance from the crown, a series of forwardly and in- Wardly extending and upwardly turned. into the crown-of the hat from opposite diprongs projecting from each slide-bar, a sereetions. ries of guides, one for each prong, near the junction of the rim and crown of the hat, and OSCAR STROMBORG' 5 a thumb-piece attached to the slide-bars so Witnesses:

that, by forcing the slide-bars in the same HOMER L. KRAFT,

direction, pins from each side Will be thrust ABBIE E. JOHNSON. 

